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Old 01-11-2011, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by kinetic View Post
Here is my result from tonight with the 12" Newt.
Focus and seeing terrible. A very poor comparison.
Your image is incredible Greg, and congrats Greg Bock on the
discovery . IOTW...awesome!

Steve
Cheers Steve. Its been cloudy pretty much ever since.

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Thanks jjj and Steve
with the benefit of hindsight, I should have spent the last few days at Lostock, clouds seem to be getting worse here, and preventing me from getting a nice colour pic of the galaxy.

To all thinking of imaging it, give it a go, its relatively bright, and being a type IIP, it should have a nice leisurely drop off in brightness over the next few months.
Greg I'd love a bit of a writeup about what type of star does this, how big is it, how much energy is there in these explosions and over what area of space does this extend. It looks brighter than the galaxy itself and would appear to be very dangerous to be anywhere near it. Radiation alone from an event like this must be dangerous to life.

Greg.
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